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The Atlantic: No Driver’s License, No Job.

I miss in-depth reporting from media. Ah, for the old days. We’d have a television special or something about a first-person experience of this kind of situation. No money for it now, seemingly. Independent filmmakers, here’s your niche.

Techdirt: New York Times Says Fair Use Of 300 Words Will Run You About $1800.

FYI. I asked in 2000 via direct phone call about blogging excerpts. They said (NY Times, WaPo): “Source identified clearly, no more than three sentences and a link back.” I’ve pretty much tried to stick to that policy throughout my blogging career. Perhaps it is time for another phone call.

SF Reporter: Trump Stumps in ABQ [Photos].

Steven Hsieh does an excellent job illustrating the event. Consider this a followup to yesterday’s post.

Related: FactCheck.org, Trump ‘misleads’ on Martinez and Syrian refugees. His misunderstanding of simple facts is proving problematic; worse than Reagan’s, in my memory. Reagan had handlers to clean up the mess and assuage the press. Reagan would have a press conference, start ‘winging it’, and his handlers would take three days to clean up the mess. Friday -> Monday, typically. So the Reagan folks stopped having press conferences.

Going to cool it on politics today. Or try, anyway.

You’ll no doubt read volumes elsewhere. The realization that he is completely unqualified and unfit to run the country is finally settling in. No doubt the press will bow before him; they see ad impression profits beyond imagined Clinton ‘scandals’. To most of their circulation departments, he represents $$. Defy ‘normalizing’ the man. Any article of such you see, avoid it. Mephistopheles (Goethe’s demon in Faust) was a very compelling character - doesn’t mean you’d want to have him as lord and master. Every candidate has a good idea or two; you have to look at the whole. But raising these narrow ‘good’ policies artificially, obscuring the ‘bad’ - these daily (hourly on social) purposeful imbalances wear on your resolution like drips of water wearing down iron. It’s slow, but it has an effect. Remember: He is not a serious candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Period.